COM Archives - Angel Hernandez

Retrieving IHTMLDocument & IWebBrowser2 objects from hWnd

Posted on April 6, 2020August 4, 2020 by angelh

Hi Community, For the past year, I’ve been pretty busy assisting one of my customers to deliver an integrated desktop solution built with Microsoft USD as part of a major transformation program that encompasses Dynamics CRM 365, Microsoft Azure, Apttus (CPQ), ERPly, Guidewire products and banking software. During this time we’ve faced some technical challenges, […]

MetaFS (Metadata File System for Windows)

Posted on June 16, 2015December 23, 2016 by angelh

FileSystems are the storage backbone for any computer system, in Today’s operating systems most of them provide a common functionality set like journaling, security and metadata among others. In my humble opinion, metadata is one of the most important ones, reason being is that they can tell users about the contents of the file without […]

Pass information to .NET control from Native Code with Visual C++

Posted on March 17, 2015December 23, 2016 by angelh

As a follow up to this post on interoperability between .NET and native code, this post describes how we can host a .NET user control from an ActiveX control, but more importantly set properties that drive or change the behaviour of the .NET user control. First of all, we need to define an interface with […]

Read XML config files with Visual C++

Posted on June 15, 2014December 23, 2016 by angelh

Hi Community, I am currently working on an add-in for Visual Studio to expose some functionality available in the “Debugger Engine and Extension APIs”. The development is in the very early stages, but I have completed already one feature required by the Add-in, which is the ability to read XML configuration files similarly to how […]

Taking pictures with Kinect & calling GDI+ to reduce the file size

Posted on April 17, 2012February 23, 2019 by angelh

Hi Community, As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been putting together an application which comprises technologies like Kinect, Windows Azure & Visual C++. The application name is “CyberNanny” and I wrote it for my beautiful newborn baby . Actually, I’ve submitted today an article to MSDN magazine about the aforementioned solution. Today’s post is about […]